From Bots to Mini Apps: My First Real Build in a Tokyo Startup

こんにちは、Timothyです。 This is my second post — and it’s about the first project I picked up after joining a startup in Tokyo.

I’m not sure what comes to mind when you think of “startups in Japan.” Something international? Scrappy and fast-moving? Or maybe more traditional, just with hoodies?

In my case, it was somewhere in between.

While exploring Web3 use cases for the team, I stumbled on something in a product backlog:

“Telegram Mini App — let’s try one.”

No docs. No handover. But I’d built Telegram bots before — back when that was all there was. So I picked it up, asked for a deadline, and got full freedom to run.

That’s just the beginning. The full write-up is now live — with all the messy, fun details of building and shipping something real in Tokyo:

👉 Full post here

🧩 If you’re into Telegram bots, fast-moving projects, or curious about what engineering looks like inside a Tokyo startup — take a look.

And if you’re someone who works with developers — PM, founder, hiring —  I think you’ll get a sense of how I work just by reading it. Let’s stay connected.